KINTETSU BUFFALOES

The 'Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes' (ja: 大阪近鉄バファローズ) was a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Osaka, Japan, which were in the Pacific League. The team was owned by the Kinki Nippon Railway and later sold to the Orix Group, the owner of the Orix Blue Wave baseball team, in 2004. The new owner then announced that they will merged the two teams into one team called the Orix Buffaloes before the start of the 2004-2005 NPB season.
:'Founded:' 1950
:'Formerly known as:' Kintetsu Pearls (1950-1958), Kintetsu Buffalo (1959-1961), Kintetsu Buffaloes (1962-1998), Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (1999-2004), Orix Buffaloes (2005-)
:'Home ballpark:' Osaka Dome
:'Uniform colors:' Red, navy blue and White
:'Nickname:' ''Kintetsu'' (近鉄), ''Buffaloes'' (バファローズ), ''Mougyu'' (猛牛) means violent buffalo, ''Ushi'' (牛,丑) means cow.
:'Logo design:' A stylized buffalo's head with angry-looking red eyes which is designed by Okamoto Taro; or "Buffaloes" in red script, outlined with white.
:'League championships won' (4): 1979, 1980, 1989, 2001
:'Japan Series championships won' (0):

Contents

Players of note

Former players

Retired numbers

External links

Players of note

Former players

★ Ralph Bryant

★ Phil Clark

★ Dick Davis

★ Chuck Essegian

★ Hisashi Iwakuma

★ Charlie Manuel

★ Don Money

★ Norihiro Nakamura

★ Hideo Nomo

★ Ben Oglivie

★ Akinori Otsuka

★ Tuffy Rhodes

★ German Rivera

★ Lee Stevens

★ Keishi Suzuki

★ Jim Traber

★ Masato Yoshii

Retired numbers

★ 1 Keishi Suzuki

External links

★ History of the Kintetsu Buffaloes

★ The dramatic determination of champiohship in Pacific League